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The Associated Press

Feb. 21, 2016

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Jaromir Jagr scored twice to move into third place on the NHL career goals list and help the Florida Panthers beat the Winnipeg Jets 3-1 on Saturday night.

Jagr's goal 4:53 into the second period tied the score at 1-1 and tied Brett Hull for third with 741 goals. Only Wayne Gretzky (894) and Gordie Howe (801) had more goals.

The 44-year-old Jagr then scored his 20th of the season and No. 742 for his career on a wrist shot from close range with 4:23 left in the third period to make it 3-1.

Reilly Smith had the go-ahead power-play goal early in the third period for Florida and Roberto Luongo stopped 30 shots in his return after missing two games. The Panthers won for just the third time in eight games (3-3-2).

Nikolaj Ehlers scored and Michael Hutchinson finished with 25 saves for the Jets, losers of three straight (0-2-1).

Gostisbehere is the first rookie to have four overtime goals in a season and his points streak is the longest by a defenseman since Chris Chelios in 1995-96. Chelios had 20 points in 15 games.

Gostisbehere already had the longest rookie scoring streak in Flyers history.

Sam Gagner and Jakub Voracek scored 39 seconds apart in the first period for the Flyers. Brayden Schenn and Matt Read also scored for the Flyers.

Nick Spaling snapped a 60-game drought and Byron Froese scored for the first time in two months for Toronto, his second goal of the season. Shawn Matthias, who was returning from a five-game absence because of whiplash, and Peter Holland also scored for Toronto.

Toronto has lost 15 of its past 19 games.

CAPITALS 4, DEVILS 3

WASHINGTON (AP) — Brooks Orpik scored his second goal of the season with 3:58 left and Washington rallied to beat New Jersey, becoming the first NHL team with 90 points this season.

Washington's T.J. Oshie tied the game with 6:05 left in his 500th NHL game. Orpik got his fourth assist of the season on Oshie's goal.

Alex Ovechkin scored his league-leading 38th goal and had an assist, and Evgeny Kuznetsov also had a goal and an assist for Washington.

Boucher had two assists before his goal put New Jersey ahead 3-2 midway through the third period.

BLUES 6, COYOTES 4

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Vladimir Tarasenko, David Backes and Alexander Steen each had a goal and an assist and St. Louis used a four-goal first period to beat Arizona.

The Blues have won five straight. Jaden Schwartz, Carl Gunnarsson and Patrik Berglund also scored and Colton Parayko added two assists. Brian Elliott stopped 18 shots.

Arizona has lost seven of 10 and are about to start a five-game trip. Max Domi scored twice, Kevin Connauton had a goal and two assists and Shane Doan also scored. Louis Domingue stopped 30 of 35 shots and was pulled for the second half of the first period before returning.

LIGHTNING 4, PENGUINS 2

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Tampa Bay forward Steven Stamkos became the third player in franchise history to reach 300 goals, and the Lightning ended a long losing streak in Pittsburgh.

Stamkos knocked in a rebound off Alex Killorn's shot midway through the first period to join Vincent Lecavalier and Martin St. Louis as the only Lightning players with 300 goals.

Tom Kuhnhackl picked up the first NHL goal of his career for Pittsburgh. Scott Wilson added his second in as many games but the Penguins fell to the Lightning at home in the regular season for the first time since Nov. 12, 2010.

Jeff Zatkoff stopped 16 of 20 shots while making an impromptu start when Marc-Andre Fleury became ill during the pregame.

David Krejci, Matt Beleskey, Loui Eriksson, Kevan Miller and Brett Connolly also scored for the Bruins, and Tuukka Rask had 26 saves.

Antoine Roussel had a goal and an assist, Ales Hemsky and Patrick Sharp also scored and Jason Demers had two assists for the Stars. Kari Lehtonen finished with 35 saves.

Dallas led 3-1 before Marchand scored his second goal with 6:36 left in the second period. Miller tied it 35 seconds later, and Eriksson put the Bruins ahead for good with 52 seconds left in the second.